Implant may be slowly failing, advice welcomed.

[Waynetho]

I think what Doug is saying is that after implantation, you still have ORGANIC ED. Even if you only had troublesome erections before implantation, it's very likely that you will have profound organic ED after implantation because without the use of the mechanism, you have no means of erection.

Functional ED isn't the same as organic ED. Just like, getting a knee replaced, you no longer have one organic knee therefore without the mechanical or metal portion, you would be worse off than before replacement, having no knee at all rather than an arthritic one. Remove the penile implant that gives you functional erection and it's very likely that you will have worse ED than you ever did before, specifically, NO organic erection.

[DougAnd]

I'm no expert but I have peyronies. many possible causes but one is the loss of oxygen to the penis which causes it to slowly die and whither away. In the process it often bends as one spot dies faster than others. I'm just saying that it might be something to have the doctor look at. A Doppler would show it.
That being said my left cylinder has always been a bit off. But my problem started from day one not a gradual progression. So I have no idea why that would happen unless peyronies or some weird mechanical failure. The pump delivers equal pressure to both sides unless one side becomes obstructed. The only obstruction I know of is peyronies.
Good luck

[thereishope]

Hey Cnidium.... Hopefully you won't have any issues contacting your doctor, if you decide to do so because of the covid situation.

As for the problem... There is a member here that has had the implant for years but does not use it during sex, and inflates it like once or twice a year and he has no problems. Sometimes the devices develop issues on their own, and hopefully it's not the case. I am trying to picture what you wrote, but it's hard without a picture. I will try to re-read tomorrow.

Out of suggestions man.

I feel like I remember that member as well, and from other pieces of info along the way I truly don't believe long periods of non-use is problematic.


Hey everyone else, I will be in contact with Eid shortly. I wont rush it since this 'problem' has been here for a few months now and I am just so busy. I also wont wait too long. I have 5/10/2020 available to send out the first contact to him regarding my situation. Until then I will contine to cycle and have sex with the gf.

Thank you all for replying, I will let you know how it goes.

So... any news? I came across this while browsing pubmed and reminded me of you: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30173304

You can definitely have a CT Scan to help out diagnose issues later on when this corona virus thing settles down.

[SW0110]

Sad to say. Implant is probably failing.

Peyronies is specifically an injury to penis normally due to sex causing plaque which causes a curvature and lack of elasticity. Nothing related to oxygen.

I was told by several urologists once implanted and cycling, peyronies was no longer an issue at all.

If you were fixed after implant you were good. Call your surgeon. Get it checked. If there is a difference in pumps to a hard erection. You have an implant problem.

[thereishope]

Sad to say. Implant is probably failing.

Peyronies is specifically an injury to penis normally due to sex causing plaque which causes a curvature and lack of elasticity. Nothing related to oxygen.

I was told by several urologists once implanted and cycling, peyronies was no longer an issue at all.

If you were fixed after implant you were good. Call your surgeon. Get it checked. If there is a difference in pumps to a hard erection. You have an implant problem.

I couldn't second this more. Not to mention how many times it was said by doctors that an implant, especially the CX/Titan will straighten your curvature/break through plaque as time goes by.

[Cnidium]

Hey everyone,

In regards to peyronie's ect, I do in fact have it. Dr. Eid diagnosed it during pre-op inspection. He told me, as have many others, that the titan will effectively alleviate most of the peyronie's symptoms. And this is true for almost 1.5yr after the implant. This makes me think it is mechanical.

Furthermore, my peyronie's was from a known traumatic injury (car crash), not from long-term physiological health degeneration. Both Dr. Eid and others who performed tests on me showed that I had excellent blood flow into the penis, its just the scar tissue in the left corpora prevented it from being fully retained to maintain an erection for more than a few minutes.

In conclusion, it might be the peyronie's symptoms coming back, but I feel the 'evidence' is indicating otherwise and therefore most likely some kind of deterioration in the implant.

I will continue cycling daily, and rotating and bending my implant around at different degrees of inflation to see if I can undo this 'kink' or bend.

Again, thank you everyone for posting. I am weighing all of your opinions.

[Cnidium]

Hey everyone,

My apologies I have been gone for a while due to work being very busy.

I never did contact Dr. Eid, but my difficulty pumping to max capacity just disappeared one day. Very strange I know, and I'm not sure what the cause or cure was. But I can now pump to absolute rock-hard fullness every time now.

However, the distortions and peyronie-like symptoms are still present. Despite having a titan, there a now intends and bends on the left cylinder. I have tried bending the implant during inflation to try to "un-kink" anything, but no avail. To complicate things further, I had absolutely no bending or dents for a long time post-implant - they only showed up after going over a month without pumping at all.

I know this thread got old, so I might just start a new one to see if anyone else has had this experience. If not, I will reach out to Dr. Eid.
*Eid now has virtual visits available, will do that soon.